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The Venezuela food crisis is continuing to grow and this weekend the government once again opened the border into Colombia. According to Canadian Business,more than 123,000 people took advantage, stocking up on food and medicine. A photo shows the depths of crisis in Venezuela. Tens of thousands stream across border to buy food. https://t.co/YkD1B8usjs —

In response to recent news of perpetrators committing violent crimes against women and getting lenient sentences, groups of protesters totaling more than 50,000 people gathered in the capital city of Lima and eight other cities in Peru for an unprecedented march. Officials claim this was the largest gathering of protesters in the nation’s history. “Today,

The FARC peace deal initially began with the signing of Cessation of Hostilities between the Colombian government and las Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC) rebels on June 24 of this year. As referred to in the report by TeleSur, the FARC peace deal has been improved to be legally binding so that a right-wing

When Donald Trump made his speech in which he famously included his “what the hell do you have to lose” statement to African-Americans to convince them to vote for him — around the idea that all of their own infrastructure was doomed; it was already built from the foundation of a campaign that doesn’t have

Last Friday Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro went to the neighborhood of Villa Rosa to show off a renovation project on Margarita Island, which was full of people with pots and pans who were there to cheer him on and the Bolivarian Revolution, or so he thought. The Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday that Maduro

A politician in northeastern Brazil has been arrested for shooting and killing a man on Monday after the victim approached him at a club to complain about his unfulfilled election promise. José Alberto Carvalho Pereira, the city counselor of Campo Formoso in the state of Bahia, was reportedly arrested as he was attempting to enter

In what has been described as a “serious blow to democracy” and a Brazil “coup,” President Dilma Rousseff has been suspended for 180 days amid what was described as a “corruption scandal” and a vote by the South American country’s Senate, on Thursday, to replace her with Vice President Michel Temer, as reported by The

Many Argentines saw visions of Mauricio Macri in the rise of Donald Trump. As a rich boy-prince touting his lack of political establishment ties, screaming corruption at the party in power — it’s easy to see how an outsider could get that view. After all, even Eric Trump compared Mauricio to his father while opening

Former Honduran president Manuel Zelaya, who was ousted by a military coup in 2009, says he’s thinking about running for president in the next election. Zelaya says the decision would depend on whether he could get the support of his party to take back the country’s top office. The announcement has breathed new life into

It has been revealed that the crew of the doomed LaMia Flight 2933 was late for their departure due to time spent looking for a lost video game. The delay was cited as a potential reason that the plane arrived too late to its refueling point. The plane would subsequently run out of gas and